There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.